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21st Century Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment was a movement which took place primarily in Europe during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Primary ideas of the Enlightenment included individual liberty, tolerance, progress, the source of authority, and the rejection of traditional thinking and status quo (Szalay, 2016). Kant (1784) explained that “Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another.” Therefore, enlightenment includes developing the courage and determination to explore the real meaning behind the reasons that we behave the way we do. Matthew Taylor makes the claim that a new age of enlightenment is needed; an enlightenment for the 21st century (Taylor, 2010). In addition, he suggest